Study Abroad Ambassador Blog Post: Kavya Kavanakudy Hear from our ambassador Kavya on her adjustment to life in Australia. Hint: it isn't as easy as you may think! Read more (and check out her awesome photos) on our website! ]]> Hear from our ambassador Kavya on her adjustment to life in Australia. Hint: it isn't as easy as you may think! Read more (and check out her awesome photos) on our website! https://studyabroad.umbc.edu/sydney-australia-2/ https://my3.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/83029/guest@my.umbc.edu/4510bf82a88fbbdd6f751e6f612a2fae/api/pixel Education Abroad https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/studyabroad https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/572/2c3ac64a01925fe40a18386abf1e0dd8/xsmall.png?1714677094 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/572/2c3ac64a01925fe40a18386abf1e0dd8/original.png?1714677094 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/572/2c3ac64a01925fe40a18386abf1e0dd8/xxlarge.png?1714677094 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/572/2c3ac64a01925fe40a18386abf1e0dd8/xlarge.png?1714677094 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/572/2c3ac64a01925fe40a18386abf1e0dd8/large.png?1714677094 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/572/2c3ac64a01925fe40a18386abf1e0dd8/medium.png?1714677094 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/572/2c3ac64a01925fe40a18386abf1e0dd8/small.png?1714677094 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/572/2c3ac64a01925fe40a18386abf1e0dd8/xsmall.png?1714677094 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/572/2c3ac64a01925fe40a18386abf1e0dd8/xxsmall.png?1714677094 Education Abroad https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/083/029/cf3dd1db97cb7c98de2d9b5b3cdd86df/xxlarge.jpg?1553100968 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/083/029/cf3dd1db97cb7c98de2d9b5b3cdd86df/xlarge.jpg?1553100968 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/083/029/cf3dd1db97cb7c98de2d9b5b3cdd86df/large.jpg?1553100968 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/083/029/cf3dd1db97cb7c98de2d9b5b3cdd86df/medium.jpg?1553100968 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/083/029/cf3dd1db97cb7c98de2d9b5b3cdd86df/small.jpg?1553100968 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/083/029/cf3dd1db97cb7c98de2d9b5b3cdd86df/xsmall.jpg?1553100968 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/083/029/cf3dd1db97cb7c98de2d9b5b3cdd86df/xxsmall.jpg?1553100968 2 0 true Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:58:57 -0400 Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:00:06 -0400 Farewell for Renetta Tull, March 27
Dear University Colleagues,

Please join the UMBC Graduate School for a farewell celebration for one of our esteemed colleagues, Dr. Renetta Garrison Tull, as she leaves UMBC after 16 years of distinguished service, to take on a new position at The University of California Davis.

Dr. Tull is Associate Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives at UMBC, as well as director of graduate and professional pipeline development, and also special assistant to the Senior Vice Chancellor for the University System of Maryland.

Dr. Tull has been a passionate advocate, global mentor, education policy strategist, and champion for equity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). She has worked tirelessly to promote the professional development of graduate students at UMBC, focusing intensively on those in Ph.D. programs.

Dr. Tull is the founding director and co-principal investigator for PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and Professoriate (AGEP), as sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and administered by Dr. Tull across USM.  

Additionally, she is co-director and co-principal investigator of the USM’s Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP), which presides over multiple universities. LSAMP seeks to increase the number of STEM bachelors and graduate degrees earned by students from historically underrepresented groups 

Dr. Tull will begin serving as Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at UC Davis, starting July 1.  

Please join us for a celebration of Renetta’s achievements, and to wish her well, on March 27, 4-6 pm in the Commons Game Room.
]]> Dear University Colleagues, Please join the UMBC Graduate School for a farewell celebration for one of our esteemed colleagues, Dr. Renetta Garrison Tull, as she leaves UMBC after 16 years of... https://my3.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/83027/guest@my.umbc.edu/2370bca4d397e267925a00b514a6d3a0/api/pixel UMBC Community News https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/retired-1090 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/090/56c39666a7bf2e5028d5419fc903e52d/xsmall.png?1593096708 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/090/56c39666a7bf2e5028d5419fc903e52d/original.png?1593096708 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/090/56c39666a7bf2e5028d5419fc903e52d/xxlarge.png?1593096708 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/090/56c39666a7bf2e5028d5419fc903e52d/xlarge.png?1593096708 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/090/56c39666a7bf2e5028d5419fc903e52d/large.png?1593096708 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/090/56c39666a7bf2e5028d5419fc903e52d/medium.png?1593096708 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/090/56c39666a7bf2e5028d5419fc903e52d/small.png?1593096708 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/090/56c39666a7bf2e5028d5419fc903e52d/xsmall.png?1593096708 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/090/56c39666a7bf2e5028d5419fc903e52d/xxsmall.png?1593096708 UMBC Community News 10 2 true Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:44:00 -0400 Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:44:18 -0400 BADLANDS, 2019 MFA Thesis Exhibit Save the date!!
Badlands
2019 IMDA MFA Thesis Exhibition
Tuesday, April 9 – Saturday, April 26
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture

Artists’ reception: Friday, April 12, from 5 to 7 p.m. 

Satellite Events
  • Saturday, April 13, 12-3pm: Nicole Ringel & Leah Michaels; Lion Brothers Studio
  • Sunday, April 14, 2-5pm: Leah Michaels; Full Circle Photo
  • Thursday, April 18, 2pm: RTKL Lecture with Chinen Aimi Bouillon

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents the annual MFA Thesis Exhibition, featuring works by the five graduate students will who receive MFAs in Intermedia and Digital Arts in 2019. The work selected represents the culmination of each student’s unique experience in UMBC’s dynamic and demanding MFA program.

Chinen Aimi Bouillon works as a detective investigating matrilineal and patrilineal histories. She is an artist born in Okinawa, Japan, former Ryukyu Kingdom, to a native mother and a United States Marine father. Through framing territories of contradiction she analyzes the duality of everyday gender, power and war. Her art is the process of discovery and findings of matrilineal histories colonized by patriarchal narratives. The gallery displays images of Okinawa taken on a 35mm black and white film with photograms of signs and symbols transliterating the Ryukyu oral language and a table top with geographic outline of Okinawa island. The installation plays with the assumed hierarchy of knowledge.

Dilay Kocogullari’s installation – 300 ovary-shaped crocheted pouches, filled with living grass and hanging from the ceiling – is a memorial to the increasing number of women murdered in her home country, Turkey. On the walls appear videos of 70 Turkish participants who helped crochet the pouches in a collaborative act of resistance to femicide.

In Leah Michaels’ thesis video installation, she appears as surfer and priestess, performing last-rite rituals for the ocean, accompanying “her” – the sea – as “she” is dying. As viewers move through and around the installation, they create metaphoric currents, bear witness to the rituals, and join in mourning the ocean’s impending passing.

Bryan O’Neill is an intermedia artist utilizing sculpture, photography, and performance to create work which explores intersections of mankind and Nature. Focusing on American ideas of wilderness, survivalism, manliness, and absurdity he explores the ecological thought and the performance of masculinity in the culture of the outdoorsman. His process focuses heavily upon repetition to create installations which reveal hours of meditative effort through salvaged wood, camp rope, and resin.

Nicole Ringel's “Remnants, Remainders, Ghosts, and Continuities” is two translations of observed details, researched history, and traced paths gathered over the past year in the Hollins Market: a site-specific walking experience in Hollins Market, Baltimore, and an installation that employs undulating text, images, and movement to explore the relationship between body and landscape.

Admission is free.
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Port Discovery Children’s Museum seeks an Associate Director of Educational Programming to oversee the management and delivery of innovative educational experiences.

]]> Port Discovery Children’s Museum seeks an Associate Director of Educational Programming to oversee the management and delivery of innovative educational experiences. https://www.baltimoreculture.org/programs/jobsplus/20070 https://my3.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/83036/guest@my.umbc.edu/1ddd37d825e4548b70a4a9f2c9a40602/api/pixel alliance arts baltimore cultural culture education full-time greater jobs mid-level museum museums nonprofit opportunities organizations positions studies Museum Practice https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/museumpractice https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/780/ec390e445f99f5d8c57a847f02552fbc/xsmall.png?1384380461 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/780/ec390e445f99f5d8c57a847f02552fbc/original.png?1384380461 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/780/ec390e445f99f5d8c57a847f02552fbc/xxlarge.png?1384380461 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/780/ec390e445f99f5d8c57a847f02552fbc/xlarge.png?1384380461 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/780/ec390e445f99f5d8c57a847f02552fbc/large.png?1384380461 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/780/ec390e445f99f5d8c57a847f02552fbc/medium.png?1384380461 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/780/ec390e445f99f5d8c57a847f02552fbc/small.png?1384380461 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/780/ec390e445f99f5d8c57a847f02552fbc/xsmall.png?1384380461 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/780/ec390e445f99f5d8c57a847f02552fbc/xxsmall.png?1384380461 Museum Practice 0 0 true Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:04:24 -0400 Mollye Bendell '18 receives Harvestworks Residency
"The Language of the Angels is an immersive virtual reality artwork that playfully addresses the changing conception of space and place within our own consciousness. The work consists of an obsessively detailed model of Mollye’s bedroom, drawing tension between technology and consciousness to represent the realities we construct. Each week, a new “chapter” of the room is released, allowing viewers to manipulate the space and create alternative realities. The Language of the Angels will be released on a dedicated website each week.

Mollye Bendell makes digital and analog sculptures for digital and analog worlds. Her practice explores the dissolving line between the digital and the physical that defines the human/user experience of “things.” In her work, she experiments with virtual reality, 3D printing, laser cutting, CNC machining, circuit building and bending, and codeable objects. The intangible nature of electronic media is used as a metaphor for exploring vulnerability, visibility, and longing in a world that can feel isolating. Mollye currently lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland." (http://www.harvestworks.org/2019-residency-projects/)


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She researches the container as a social construct and a harbor for memory, objectification, and power. A dancer and performance artist in San Francisco from 1991-2006, Zeltzman's work has been presented in the U.S. and the Czech Republic. Her narrative video, Girl Under the Table premiered in San Francisco's Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and traveled to Hollywood, New York, Paris, Chicago, Bologna, Houston, Spokane, and Toronto. In 2014, she received her MFA in Intermedia and Digital Art from UMBC, and was chosen as one of six MFA graduates from Baltimore to exhibit in the Young Blood show at MAP. In 2015 she was awarded a b-grant Baker Artist Award, and in 2016 she was a recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award. During academic year 2015-2016 Zeltzman was the Visiting Scholar in Art at Phillips Academy Andover and now teaches at UMBC. She recently spent 10 months taking care of her mother full time and, in the process, created a living artwork in the presence of dementia. She collaborates with Los Angeles based artist, Paula Cronan. Her house is her studio." 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Jason Charney, M.F.A. Candidate, Intermedia + Digital Arts Graduate Program, 2020

Project: “Equivocation: Noisy Drawings”

My work explores how our psyches shape and are shaped by the tools we use, both consciously and subconsciously. How do we adjust our interpersonal relationships, our modes of perception, and even our bodies in order to communicate with and through the digital medium? How can the errors and failures of technologies expose the limits of its abilities – and our trust in its rendering of our intentions?

In my process, I investigate the human interface with technology, and especially the unreliable translations between the natural and artificial, the physical and digital, and the embodied and electronic. These themes manifest in multimedia installations and performances, often employing custom software and digital/physical hybrids to create sound, animation, and light in real-time generative systems.
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"In its polyphonic work, Mapa Teatro traces a space of migrations with the displacement of the private and public spheres; artistic languages (theatre productions, actions, installations, urban interventions, opera, cabaret, sound pieces, radio and performance lectures; authors and eras; geography and language: the word, image and movement; the voice, music and sound processes; memory and the city; simulation and reality; document and fiction; poetics and politics." (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía)

Read more here: https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/mapa-teatro AND https://www.revistadearte.com/2018/10/30/mapa-teatro-crea-para-el-museo-reina-sofia-de-los-dementes-o-faltos-de-juicio/

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Sujan Shrestha, an alumnus of our IMDA program, is currently Assistant professor/Science, Information Arts and Technologies and Program director/ Simulation and Game Design at the University of Baltimore (UB).

Sujan and his UB GameLab team have an exciting new project with the Maryland Historical Society to use game technology as a tool to preserve history and culture. Specifically, they have created a Virtual Reality exhibition of two of Baltimore's historical ships: USS Constellation and CA-68.

The VR can be experienced at the Maryland Historical Society on Thursday November 1st  (12 noon  to 2PM )  and on December 6th. 

For more information please visit: https://www.mdhs.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=354 
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Chosen by juror Cara Ober, Parastoo Aslanbeik wins the MFA Award for her mixed media installation and written thesis “Wispobish: Forest of Ghosts, Tower of Voices.”
 
“I believe the most precious thing about winning an award is that it makes you more determined in your life and toward your goal. This has happened to me.” 
 
Wispobish is a powerful tree in Persian mythology. The word “Wispobish”  in Persian refers to “the cure of every disease.”  Simurgh, a mythical phoenix-like bird representing benevolence, is  believed to nest in the Wispobish tree. In this artwork I employ the symbol of the Wispobish in response to the recent Executive Order # 13769 “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry'”that attempts to ban Iranians and other Muslims from the United States. I utilize the old photographic technique of wet-plate collodion, in combination with tree branches, to create a ghostly forest. A fragile yet monumental structure constructed from white-washed cardboard boxes is inscribed with ancient Persian poems and silhouettes of branches. Amplified from inside the tower of boxes is a soundtrack of quiet songs and mumblings in various languages. Through my artwork I hope to evoke the voices of those who have been demonized and to offer healing through collective strength.

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MINA CHEON IMDA 2002

The Intermedia and Digital Arts [ IMDA ] MFA program is pleased to announce the IMDA Friends + Alumni fund, founded and inspired by IMDA alumna Mina Cheon '02. The primary objective of the fund is to award $1000 for the most outstanding MFA exhibition and written thesis. Each year a qualified arts professional will serve as a juror for the award. This MFA Award is inspired by those who wish to boost the emerging career of promising IMDA alumni, especially impacting the transitional year following their MFA.

We are grateful to Mina Cheon, the founding alumna of this award. Friends and alumni who wish to donate to the award should contact the Graduate Program Director [lmoren@umbc.edu], the Department Chair, or imda@umbc.edu.

 

MINA CHEON  [ MFA, PhD ] is a Korean American global new media artist, scholar, and educator who divides her time between Korea and the United States. Cheon has exhibited her political pop art known as “Polipop” internationally and draws inspiration from global media and popular culture to produce work that intersects politics and pop art in subversive and provocative ways. In particular, Cheon has worked on North Korean awareness and global peace projects since 2004 and appeared to the world as a North Korean artist KIM IL SOON since 2013. While she creates work that ranges in medium from new media, video, installation, performance, and public projects to traditional media of painting and sculpture, the content of the work is in historical alignment with appropriation art and global activism art. Her work has been exhibited and | or is in the collection of the Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul Olympic Museum, Busan Biennale 2018, American University Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Art Place Contemporary Art Center, Insa Art Space Korean Arts Council, C.Grimalis Gallery, Lance Fung Gallery, Trunk Gallery, and she is represented by Ethan Cohen Gallery in New York. Cheon is the author of Shamanism + Cyberspace  (Atropos Press, Dresden and New York, 2009), contributor for ArtUS, Wolgan Misool, New York Arts Magazine, and Artist Organized Art, member of the Board of Directors of the New Media Caucus of the College Art Association, and Associate Editor of the Media-N peer-review academic journal. She is also a full-time Professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

www.minacheon.com

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